Mars

The worst month of them all (well almost...September still holds that title) has not been all that bad. Granted, we're only 4 days in. The only bad thing thus far? My sleep recession. Usually, come May, I begin to wake up at 5:00-5:30 in the morning on an almost daily basis. The root of this was in middle school when my little brain was so anxious to listen to some new muzaks it would wake me up early just for that reason. This still happens...like I know an album really got to me if I wake up in the middle of the night, or early, just to listen to it. But if it is not May my body has a tendency to wake me up around 3:00 AM and it whispers in my ear "listen to the muuusic".

But this recession isn't like that.

Because of my class schedule I am able to sleep until 7:30, so that's what I was doing. Somehow my body, my mind, my subconscious, my something now feels the need to wake me up at 5:45 and not let go. There's no falling back asleep by then. It's like semi-reverse insomnia. And it's only March. I don't know how well I can fare with this.

I've been listening to Right Away, great Captain! quite a bit now (even more than usual, thanks to my sleep habits). RAGC is the side project of Andy Hull, the singer of Manchester Orchestra. It tells the story of a sailor who finds out his wife in in a relationship with his brother, and as he returns home from sailing (?)he plots his revenge. I think. It's a three part opus, but only two discs are out and from them I've only heard a handful of their songs ( including their AMAZING cover of The Mountain Goats "The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton). I'd really love to buy their/his CD, but I still have a good eleven CD's to listen to before I will allow myself to buy any old CDs. I might make an exception for the new Manchester Orchestra, which comes out very soon, and will be mind blowing-ly magical.

My daunting Collection of remaining CDs I need to Listen to. I've actually begun to make a dent in it.

"Well I am but a kitchen sink/The place to make the others clean/But you keep coming back to me/I've never felt so old"

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